Smoothing shaky camera footage

If you've ever gone on location and shot some footage, I'm sure you've realized…that on occasion when you get back, your clients will inevitably choose the one…shot that wasn't on a tripod or had noise or some other issue with it.…Well if you're joining me from the last video, you may recognize this shot…as one of those shots.…If we scrub through, you can see I have some stabilization issues.…This wasn't shot on the tripod and we also have some dirt issues like dirt on the lens.…

Now in the last video, we did try and use the Clone Stamp tool to go through and…paint out some of those dirty areas.…So now in this video, we're actually going to deal with the…stabilization issues.…Now as a general rule, if you're trying to stabilize footage that already has an…effect applied to it, you should select that layer and then go up under Layer…and choose Pre-compose.…Now I want to make sure to move all the attributes into the new composition so…the effects that are applied are moved into the new composition.…

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5/7/2012

In this course, author Ian Robinson introduces Adobe After Effects CS6 and the world of animation, effects, and compositing. Chapter 1 introduces the six foundations of After Effects, which include concepts like layers, keyframes, rendering, and moving in 3D space. The rest of the course expands on these ideas, and shows how to build compositions with layers, perform rotoscoping, animate your composition with keyframes, add effects and transitions, and render and export the finished piece. Two real-world example projects demonstrate keying green screen footage and creating an advanced 3D composition with the expanded 3D toolset, an important addition to CS6.

Topics include:

Setting up the workspace, important preferences, and the cache

Importing footage and comps

Relinking missing footage

Creating type, shape layers, and masks

Rotoscoping with the Roto Brush

Adjusting keyframes in the Graph Editor

Timing animations to audio

Building backgrounds with effects

Rendering with the Render Queue and Adobe Media Encoder

Animating 3D type

Smoothing shaky footage and retouching footage

Keying green screen footage

Working with 3D: extruding shapes, adding ray-traced lighting, and more